The race is on for commercial spacebased radar. Since June, four firms have announced plans to build Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites to gather Earth observation data in all weather conditions, day and...

An Atlas 5 rocket lifts off from Space launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Credit: ULA
When the U.S. Air Force announced contracts Feb. 29 for Aerojet Rocketdyne to work on a new r...

Over the last decade, American launch vehicles have repeatedly lost competitions for launches of small (500-2,000 kilogram) commercial and international satellites because foreign vehicles such as Russia’s Dnep...

For probably the final time, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has run the congressional gauntlet. Over the course of eight days in March, Bolden testified at three hearings about NASA’s 2017 budget request.
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Courtesy of Rebecca M. Cowen-Hirsch
There has been much discussion in Washington and across the Department of Defense about the need for heightened resiliency in space. Specifically, the conversations — which...

DMSP-19 launched on a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket in 2014. Credit: ULA
DMSP-19’s loss prompts on-orbit shuffle
The U.S. Air Force has given up on efforts to recover Defense Meteorological Weather S...

To paraphrase John F. Kennedy, the best time to build a roof, or repair one, is when the sun is shining.
That’s why the refusal of many satellite fleet operators to join the Space Data Association (SDA) is som...

Courtesy of John C. McNellisJOHN C. MCNELLIS, the former president of L-3 Communications Aerospace Systems Group, has taken a Senior Executive Service position at the Pentagon, where he will serve under th...